The Painted Veil
In this film, Kolo's wife faces more challenges because she and her husband went to mainland China in the 1920s to fight the cholera epidemic. During that journey, the couple discovers betrayal and alienation, but they try to confront those bad things. Now, the couple embarks on a completely dangerous journey of self-discovery deep into the kingdom.
4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
28 September 1968, Shoreham, Kent, England, UK
7 September 1966, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
6 October 1978, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
2 September 1961, Hong Kong
29 December 1947, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
1982, Beijing, China
June 08, 2008
It's a wallow and I confess to wholeheartedly enjoying the plunge.
May 02, 2008
Norton, an American, and Australian Watts are so busy struggling with their accents that they never really find their characters' hearts. But it's a solid piece of period escapism.
April 18, 2008
Concealed passions are revealed as life takes unexpected turns and what initially seems like an act of vengeance becomes the making of the central characters
June 21, 2008
Norton's effect and Watts' able portrayal are not enough to move the misogyny of the narrative.
January 06, 2007
The movie makes for a good old-fashioned wide-screen wallow.
August 28, 2008
This stab at grand romance fails to satisfy.
January 05, 2007
Exquisitely filmed and finely acted.
January 10, 2007
The always surprising Watts creates a woman at once contemporary and retro. And Norton, as a producer as well as star, concedes enough space for Schreiber and the effortlessly fascinating Jones to earn their own spotlights.
June 10, 2008
Contents itself with making the Maugham work less prissy.
January 08, 2007
Sweeping vistas, period-piece sets, impeccable literary source, a little stolid at times, but ultimately quite impressive.
December 30, 2006
The acting is quite splendid, especially in the vicinity of the quite splendid Watts.
April 20, 2007
The production values are characteristically sumptuous, William Daniels' photography is lustrous, and Boleslawski directs with suitable flair.
